Jordan K. Lanfair | Britannica

Jordan K. Lanfair

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BIOGRAPHY English Medium Teacher for the Abu Dhabi Education Counci. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Green Technology: An A-to-Z Guide (2011) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

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Diagram of a water treatment plant showing the process from water inlet through mixing, coagulation, flocculation, settling, filtering, chemical treatment with chlorine, storage, and high-lift pumping to the distribution system.

water purification

Water purification, process by which undesired chemical compounds, organic and inorganic materials, and biological contaminants are removed from water. That process also includes distillation (the conversion of a liquid into vapour to condense it back to liquid form) and deionization (ion removal…

Publications (1)

Green Technology An A-to-Z Guide (June 2011)

By Dustin Mulvaney

Green Technology: An A-to-Z Guide explores the essential role of technology and its most recent developments toward a sustainable environment. Twofold in its definition, green technology includes the changing of existing technology toward energy conservation as well as the creation of new, clean technology aimed at utilizing renewable resources.
With a primary focus on waste management, the volume presents more than 150 articles in A-to-Z format featuring such disciplines as nanoscience,...